Bedstead

Examples

• So, he sat down at the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The iron bedstead of Og, King of Bashan, is another reference. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It would make any one go to sleep, that bedstead would, whether they wanted to or not. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It only looked like a considerably magnified bedstead--nothing more. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When Little Dorrit had her work on the table, and Maggy hers on the bedstead, Fanny fell to tying her bonnet as a preliminary to her departure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Looking in, I saw a lighted candle on a table, a bench, and a mattress on a truckle bedstead. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He was lying on an old bedstead, which turned up during the day. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He leant over the footpiece of the bedstead for a few moments, with his back towards her; then rising again--Tell me, tell me! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He says this, not unfeelingly, while sitting on the bedstead's edge with his face towards that other face and his hand upon the region of the heart. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Without Doctor Johnson, or somebody of that sort, we might have been at this present moment calling an Italian-iron, a bedstead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was the same with the groves of deserted bedsteads I peeped at, on my way to, and when I was in, my own bed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Beds: Advance from the Ponderous Bedsteads of Former Times. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The voice had no sooner ceased than the room was shaken with such violence that the windows rattled in their frames, and the bedsteads trembled again. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was a large room, with a rough splintery floor, unplastered rafters overhead, and two bedsteads on opposite sides. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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